- a variation of aerie.
aery
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And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015
Once, during the Spanish civil war, an anticlerical mob tried to destroy the building, but for all its look of aery fantasy, they could not budge a stone or dislodge a single ornament.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The room shared its aery with a broad, square veranda, trellised and vine-covered.
From Through stained glass by George Agnew Chamberlain
Why doth that glow Of God as black as blood thus grow That in our aery bower So pleased our eyes?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon
It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017
Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2011
In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Beginning, forebodingly, with an aeriest, which hinted at award show decadence, the dancer-acrobatics throughout the song closed in one Abel Tesfaye, heightening the tension in the song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
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